By Tony Attwood I have not been able to find in reference books a definitive statement concerning the Arsenal player who has scored in the largest con...
By Tony Attwood Arsenal’s motto “Victoria Concordia Crescit” was used in the club programme on this day for the first time in 1913, as part of generat...
The notion that Arsenal might take on the media and complain about the way they report the club probably seems very fanciful these days. After all, ev...
I think many people who were not there at the time now assume that Thierry Henry was a success for Arsenal from the moment he came on the pitch for th...
Adebayor, who on this day in 2006 scored for Arsenal, is not exactly remembered fondly by Arsenal fans because of his exploits in leaving the club and...
On this day in 2014 Hector Bellerín made his Champions League debut for Arsenal having made the briefest of league cup appearances for Arsenal the sea...
Did Osama bin Laden support, the head of Al Qaeda, actually support Arsenal? Bin Laden is most well known for his role in masterminding the September...
Looking at that question you might think the answer is either going to be a game against Tottenham, or a game against Leyton Orient. Or maybe Clapton ...
The media of course love to highlight controversy – it gives them something to write about and fill the space without having to do any research at all...
In 1952/3 Arsenal won the first division title under Tom Whittaker’s management. It meant he had won the league title twice as Arsenal’s manager, and ...
On this day in 1998 Freddie Ljungberg joined Arsenal as a player. He is now, of course, first team assistant to the manager and since joining from Hal...
In terms of his historic legacy, Leslie Knighton might best be described as a menace, for he was the manager who some 20 years after he left Arsenal, ...
Following the introduction of the new offside law in the summer of 1925, Arsenal lost 7-0 to Newcastle. It was Herbert Chapman’s first year at the clu...
On this day in 1888 the first ever games were played in the Football League. What makes it particularly interesting is that although the clubs involve...
By Tony Attwood Details of the many series and articles on Arsenal, and the books we have published, can be found on our home page. It is undoubtedl...
The final year at Highbury was a good thing for the club to celebrate of course, and the idea of playing in a kit that was the same as worn for the fi...
On this day in 1992 Wimbledon beat Arsenal – and it wasn’t too much of a shock. This was the first year of the Premier League and Wimbledon had alread...
This day in 1937 marked the start of the final triumph of the glorious 1930s. Between April 1930 and April 1938 Arsenal won the league five times and ...
Failing as Arsenal manager didn’t seem to matter much in the days of Billy Wright who passed away on this day in 1994. His reputation as a wonderful p...
126 years ago today, Arsenal played their first ever league match, but it is a mark of the way the club was evolving at a very fast speed that none of...
That headline does indeed reflect what happened to George Allison between 1910 (when he was editing the Arsenal programme) to this day in 1934 when he...
The simple fact is that the dislike of Arsenal within the mass media is generally so intense that reason, logic and any type of even semi-decent repor...
By Tony Attwood As you will see before for the anniversary of this day in 1913, Arsenal played at Highbury for the first time in a practice match. Alt...
Because the start of the 1970s was such a good time for Arsenal, with three major trophies in two seasons, it is easy to forget what happened thereaft...
How did newspaper commentary on Arsenal begin? It is hard to say exactly, but as Arsenal became a professional club in 1891 – two years before the clu...
On this day in 2014 Alexis Sanchez scored his first goal for Arsenal. It was his first of 60 in 122 games – a remarkable record. If we just measure le...
The events following the game between Arsenal and Celtic in the Champions League on this day in 2009 are among a group of happenings which show that t...
In many ways the Unbeaten Season has dimmed the memory of the almost unbeaten season which started on this day in 1990, in front of a crowd of 13,733....
Publications “Woolwich Arsenal, the club that changed football” is the definitive history of Arsenal from its inception as a league club through to it...
Publications “Woolwich Arsenal, the club that changed football” is the definitive history of Arsenal from its inception as a league club through to it...
Publications “Woolwich Arsenal, the club that changed football” is the definitive history of Arsenal from its inception as a league club through to it...
By Tony Attwood Losing at home to Leeds on the first home match of the season doesn’t really bode well, and tends not to make fans happy. Especially w...
